Research Catalog
True tales from the mad, mad, mad world of opera
- Title
- True tales from the mad, mad, mad world of opera [electronic resource] / Lotfi Mansouri ; with Mark Hernandez ; foreword by Carol Burnett.
- Author
- Mansouri, Lotfi.
- Publication
- Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2012.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hernandez, Mark, 1965-
- Summary
- Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Overture: Lotfi in the Underworld -- The Temple Shall Not Fall Tonight -- Prompting the Prompter -- Those Wacky Wagnerites -- Have You Seen Lotfi's Violetta? -- The Unkindest Cut of All, Part I -- Wasn't that Better, Kid? -- Coming to a Head -- Intermission: (Mis)adventures in Italy -- The Curse of the Joyous Woman, Part I -- The Exposed Unmentionables -- The Unkindest Cut of All, Part II -- An Offer I Couldn't Refuse -- The Shah's Non-Command Performance -- Mid-Life Crisis -- Horsing Around in Vienna -- The Many Faces of Love -- Intermission: A Potpourri of Madness -- The Curse of the Joyous Woman, Part II -- The Rio Norma -- Did I Hear Him Right? -- Acting Up on Opening Night -- Do Worry, Be Unhappy -- Boards and Other Well-Meaning Obstacles -- Dinner with the Yeltsins -- Two Gentlemen in Verona -- What's My Line? -- Finale: Lotfi's Song.
- ISBN
- 9781459705166 (canceled/invalid)
- 1459705165 (canceled/invalid)
- 1459705157 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781459705159 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781283695572 (canceled/invalid)
- 128369557X (canceled/invalid)
- Author
- Mansouri, Lotfi.
- Title
- True tales from the mad, mad, mad world of opera [electronic resource] / Lotfi Mansouri ; with Mark Hernandez ; foreword by Carol Burnett.
- Imprint
- Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2012.
- Added Author
- Hernandez, Mark, 1965-